Intel's Sandy Bridge dated and priced

Although we have been writing about Intel's Sandy Bridge lineup for quite some time, the guys from Expreview managed to score a full list of upcoming Sandy Bridge CPUs including the release date and the launch price.

The specifications are pretty much what we have been writing for a while and there are no surprises. The interesting details is that Intel only plans to launch its quad-cores on 9th of January while the rest of the lineup should follow up in late February and in Q2 2011 for some Pentium branded models.

The quad-core linup includes three Core i7 models, and seven Core i5 models, including the Core i7-2600K, 2600, 2600S and four different Core i5-2500 models and Core i5 2400S, 2400, and Core i5-2300. The top-notch Core i7-2600K will be priced at US $317 while the top Core i5-2500K will have a US $216 price tag.

The Core i3 models are scheduled for 20th of February and it looks like Intel plans to launch four models, rangin from 2.5GHz tto 3.3GHz. All of the Core i3 Models will be dual-core, four-thread models with 3MB of cache. The top offer is the Core i3-2390T working at 2.7GHz with 3.5GHz Turbo and a 35W TDP, as well as the Core i3-2120 working at 3.3GHz but with a slightly higher 65W TDP.

The some sort of novelty are the Pentium branded dual core models and according to the Expreview list, the first one is the Pentium G620T, clocked at 2.2GHz with 3MB of cache and a 35W TDP. This one will come out on 27th of February, have a US $70 price tag and will be followed by by three more Pentium models slated for Q2 2011.

You can check out the full post here.

From Fudzilla:

Intel's Sandy Bridge shows up in notebooks

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Acer, Gateway and Lenovo

Although it is still more than a month away, Intel's Sandy Bridge quad-core Core i7-2630QM mobile processor has already appeared in a couple of of notebooks.

The Acer Aspire 5750, an unnamed Gateway model and Lenovo's IdeaPad Y560P are just the first of many models that will eventually show up with Intel's mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs. The noted CPU works at 2GHz and should be paired up with the HM65 chipset in most cases.

Some of the notebooks are paired up with Mobility Radeon HD 6550 or HD 6570 graphics that look like a simple replacement for the HD 5500 series.

Of course, we are talking about first listings and of course, Intel will officially announce these at CES 2011.

More here.

From link at post #3:

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Sandy Bridge will still be based on the existing 32 nanometer manufacturing process, but the new architecture will include Advanced Vector Extensions to improve performance in certain media and math tasks and better handling of out-of-order execution. The integrated graphics may be the biggest leap as a brand new core will exist directly on the processor and give dedicated-level video performance that may include OpenCL general-purpose computing acceleration. Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/11/27/intel.sandy.bridge.core.i7.leaks.in.new.pcs/#ixzz16mjgBrN6

More from fudzilla:

Intel confirms accelerators in Sandy Bridge

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Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:26

Written by Nick Farrell

Dedicated circuitry for media acceleration

Chipzilla has confirmed that its Sandy Bridge processor will pack media acceleration circuitry to speed up media. Intel had hinted at the concept earlier this month, but has now gone on record to confirm it. Sandy Bridge will support DirectX 10.1 and OpenCL 1.1.

According to Cnet, Stephen L. Smith, vice president and director of PC Client operations and enabling at Intel, confirmed that the Sandy Bridge processor--to be announced January 5--will pack media acceleration circuitry.

Smith said that Sandy Bridge will have cool dedicated circuitry for media acceleration. "All of us in our daily use, whether it's home videos or photos tend to pull things from the Internet, pull things from our own capture devices at home, bring them on to our PC, transform them into different formats...all of that will be dramatically faster if one utilizes this hardware acceleration, media acceleration that we have on Sandy Bridge," he said. He added that Sandy Bridge should enable slimmer designs that perform more like mainstream laptops.

Intel is on track to deliver the 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge, which will be Sandy Bridge's successor, by the end of 2011. Intel has invested eight billion dollars to equip up to four factories for 22-nanometer production.

It looks like Ivy Bridge will be a shrink of Sandy Bridge with some enhancements. He also claimed that Intel will be getting to 8 nanometer chips by 2017.

The quad-core linup includes three Core i7 models, and seven Core i5 models, including the Core i7-2600K, 2600, 2600S and four different Core i5-2500 models and Core i5 2400S, 2400, and Core i5-2300. The top-notch Core i7-2600K will be priced at US $317 while the top Core i5-2500K will have a US $216 price tag.

I think I would fall over dead if Intel didn't change their chip designations from one release to the next.

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